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The volume gathers two domestic narratives centered on family, courtship, and moral dilemmas in a provincial community. The first portion follows Dora through diary entries, letters, and other personal records as she navigates love, engagements, illness, and the pressures of household duty; supporting accounts from friends, a physician, and relatives reveal shifting loyalties, a wedding, a broken engagement, and reconciliations. The second strand follows a clergyman and the parish social life, using short scenes and journal extracts to examine conscience, charity, and misunderstandings that affect weddings, reputations, and communal harmony. The work emphasizes sentimental feeling, moral rectitude, and the domestic consequences of private decisions.

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Title: West Lawn, and The rector of St. Mark's

Author: Mary Jane Holmes

Release date: January 14, 2023 [eBook #69785]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: G. W. Carleton, 1874

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BY
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XIII.—ETHELYN’S MISTAKE.
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XVI.—WEST LAWN. (New.)
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West Lawn
AND
The Rector of St. Mark’s.

BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES,
AUTHOR OF
Tempest and Sunshine.—‘Lena Rivers.—Marian Grey.—Meadow brook.—English Orphans.—Cousin Maude.—Homestead.—Dora Deane.—Darkness and Daylight.—Hugh Worthington.—The Cameron Pride.—Rose Mather.—Ethelyn’s Mistake.—Millbank.—Edna Browning.
NEW YORK:
G. W. Carleton & Co., Publishers.
LONDON: S. LOW, SON & CO.
M.DCCC.LXXIV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
DANIEL HOLMES,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Maclauchlan, Stereotyper,
145 & 147 Mulberry St., near Grand, N. Y.
John F. Trow & Son, Printers,
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